Thought you guys & gals might like a break from trouble-shooting. Just got a new PC at work: Dell Precision 330, Pentium4, 2GB rdram, nVidia Quadro2 64M, two 40GB ATA-100 drives (dual-boot, not raid). Install went without a hitch. It even installed correct module for integrated 3Com 3c920 which Mdk7.2 verson of 3c59x had trouble with. Rebuilt kernel for P-4 and highmem support. So far its very stable as long as I stay away from DrakConf which sometimes hangs X/KDE. The nVidia 0.9-6 driver also works well. (Not open but at least its free.) My workplace doesn't officially support Linux but my boss let me sneek it in the back door to test the concept of replacing some high- dollar/low-performance Unix boxes with Linux on PC's for scientific number crunching apps that typically run for days (sometimes weeks). Just finished a benchmark run and, to protect the guilty, I'll just say it ran 4 times faster than a Unix server that cost 10 times as much. The company bean counters should be an easy sell. The IT staff will probably be a different story. Anyways, my hats off to Mandrake and the thousands of hard-working and underpaid folks who put together this beta release. If the beta's this good, I can't wait to see the final release! Cheers, Rick
